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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: A515 Buxton to Newhaven, new speed cameras? |
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Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2008 21:02
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| Stopped using that stretch since the daft limit reduction - now cut through Earl Sterndale and go parallel to the A515 to re-emerge just before Newhaven. Not quicker, but at least I avoid the tedium of having to drive down an excellent bit of road at an a slow speed, or drive at a sensible speed and... |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: 80% of accidents down to driver inattentiveness |
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 21:54
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| Driver inattentiveness is heightened by boredom caused by being forced to cruise 100s of miles along lightly trafficed motorways at below the natural and safe speed. M6 and A74(M) spring to mind as do fairly remote stretches of the M4 and M180. |
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Forum: Campaigning Topic: No reports of cameras... Did we win? |
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 01:49
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Replies: 49
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A more effective way would be to get rid of the tolls.  |
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Forum: CSCP Refugees Topic: Question for the scamsters. |
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Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2005 01:34
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| quite easy you do 30 in a 30, if you have a heavy right foot you go faster therefore the lamposts, cars stationary vehicles go quicker past you I wouldn't drive on a camera'd road with a speedo failure. Also the difference in feel with unfamiliar vehicles can cause concern until I've adjusted to th... |
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Forum: Brainstorming Topic: GPS Speed restrictor |
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Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2005 10:32
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| Money can be made from this, because you may be forced to buy this equipment and it be checked on MOT's! This is the most dangerous thing I've ever heard, not only because it will cause people to switch off mentally, it makes perfectly safe overtaking manouvres far more dangerous. I don't know abou... |
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Forum: General Chat Topic: off topic: The Bricklayer's Story |
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Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2005 23:16
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Mr Angry exorcises his driving demons |
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 12:26
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| In many years of driving, I've noticed there's a basic lack of understanding of human nature when it comes to many of our traffic laws. A classic case is putting mobile speed traps to scan cars' speeds immediately after a speed limit change. Other ones include setting speed limits far lower than the... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: TRL595 - very important news |
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2005 01:04
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| I travel through the M1 SPECS quite a lot and I am not surprised in the least that there is an increased risk of accidents with this sort of enforcement. There is an increased risk due to vehicles travelling too close, especially across the 2 or 3 lanes at the same speed. There is an increased risk ... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: TAILGATING |
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Posted: Thu Aug 18, 2005 09:32
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| I agree with Steve here. However, I've found a good solution to tailgaters which works most of the time - you simply wash your windows, front and back, every 20 seconds or so. They quickly tire of having to turn their wipers on, and back off. Cheers Peter Never underestimate the power of the humble... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: An American Psycohologist on 'Why Drivers Speed" |
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 11:03
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Why do drivers speed?
Because the speed limit's too low!
Do I qualify for a research grant?  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Banned from Speeding by my insurers...! |
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Posted: Fri Aug 05, 2005 09:57
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Replies: 65
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| Interesting thread. Strikes me as a case of the insurance not being payed in an accident where the driver was exceeding the posted speed limit which rarely happens. Accidents involving excess speed can happen well within the speed limit in which case you will be covered, even if its your fault. I fe... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: You have nothing to fear if you stick to the speed limit |
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Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2005 23:52
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| Hi Teepee. Exactly the same thing happened to me in Carrbridge south of Inverness quite a few years ago. never been there before - stopped off to visit the local shop. Headed out the village towards 'ness. the road turns round a left hand bend and heads across heathland - dead straight.T There's one... |
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Forum: Road Safety, Speed Camera and Policy News Topic: M11 Speed Cameras Double Crash Toll |
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Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 22:53
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| Speed cameras on motorways and NSL dual carriageways are very worrying and must rank as the most stupid place to put them. Recently driving on the A1 everything was going nice and the road was flowing well. Just after it takes a sharp left turn after a roundabout(somewhere near Sherwood Forest - I'... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: M1 J20-J22 |
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Posted: Sat Jul 23, 2005 00:22
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| Could be worse - at least it's only a relatively short set of roadworks - and looks like they're doing 1 stretch and moving onto the next rather than the dreadful M6 J16-17 where 6 or 7 miles is coned off with 40 limit and specs protecting an often invisible workforce. Traffic permitting you can avo... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Does slower speed make ME safe? |
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Posted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 09:48
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| Yes, but you could take in all the lovely scenery! |
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Forum: Improving Road Safety Topic: Slowing down too much for speed cameras |
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Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2005 09:59
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| I people braking for speed cameras a lot when they're within the speed limit- occasionally emergency braking! They may be in the wrong for doing that but it's just another hazard these days. Often the speed limit is very poorly marked and not obvious from the style and nature of the road. They say y... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: The sneakiest camera van positioning I've seen yet [Images] |
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Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2005 22:00
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camera operator wrote: if you could not see the van, then how did you manage to take a photo (bit like doctor who finding the dalek invasion force last night, they were there but no one could see them).
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Sounds like the deployment of an exquisitely tuned MkI eyeball!  |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras damaged |
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Posted: Fri May 20, 2005 08:05
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| ...I borrowed the photos from Patch's original post for the second page! :) I should have snapped the Truvelo on the A508/A14 junc in Northants after it was torched - classic example of a newish junction - badly designed A508 over slight blind summit on new overbridge - the sliproads from the A14 jo... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Lack of signs causes road rage. |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 00:30
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| ... 4. Road rage beeping horns waving arms, the individual can report the matter to the local police, if the individual is willing to make a statement then subsequent action can be taken Errrr don't you need to have separate independant witnesses for the police to do anything here? I can see the sa... |
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Forum: Speed, Safety, Driving and The Law Topic: Cameras damaged |
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Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 00:14
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| http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/viffer800/gatso3600x450.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/viffer800/gatso2600x450.jpg http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y129/viffer800/gatso1600x450.jpg It would appear that that in this case a speeding conviction may have cost the local speed camera par... |
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